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...most important section is the increase of current income. The increase of current income finds its largest element, as a point of application, in the salaries of teachers. Those salaries continue to rise at a rate not unlike that which obtained between 1913 and 1925 which was 100 percent. The income of the American college is normally derived from three sources: first, the fees of students; second, the income from endowment; third, annual contributions made by graduates, supporters and other friends. The fees of students have continued to rise. Perhaps the most outstanding instance is the increase of the tuition...
During the past year, 30 percent of the incoming class were required to take on special exercise. Of those who later fulfilled all the requirements of the University, 40 percent asked to be reinstated. At the present time, upper classmen and graduate students are admitted to the classes on request, and in 1928, when this arrangement was first made, the cramped rooms in Hemenway were swamped...
...basis of sex equality of might, he will be completely overcome.... Our fight is already won. Very soon the enemy will find himself prone with the steel at his throat...Procreation, the power to reproduce the human species, is the world's most potent power, and it is 75 percent women...
...Bapat does not mention the problem of the native states, or the fact that less than 10 percent of the people are literate, according to latest statistics. Language differences (which he euphemistically terms "dialectical"), and rigid caste barriers will be removed, he says, in the future. "It is only a question of time." Perhaps so; but the British authorities have repeatedly promised India ultimate complete self government, to be granted by installments, and the only question is her present readiness...
...Percent. The $300,000,000 issue of Young Plan Bonds will bear 5½% interest, but will be offered to investors at a price insuring at least 6% return...